Sutpen first appeared in print in "Wash," which Faulkner wrote in the fall, 1933 he re-used much of that short story in Chapter 7 of the novel, though by that point Sutpen's story was much more complex. In the early summer, 1931, he wrote "Evangeline," a short story about the Sutpen family and Charles Bon, whom Judith marries and Henry kills with "the last shot fired" in the Civil War Faulkner had no luck selling the story to the magazines and it remained unpublished until after his death, but many of its narrative and thematic elements anticipate the novel. Faulkner began writing Absalom, Absalom! in February, 1934, but its imaginative origins stretch back through several different works almost to the imaginative genesis of Yoknapatawpha.
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